News release on ALYA
Tuesday May 5, 10:44 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Gerry Gabel Appointed Director of Business Development of ALYA
ALYA Opens Sales Office in Austin, Texas
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998--ALYA International, Inc. (''ALYA'' or the ''Company'')(OTC BB:ALYA - news) announced today that Gerry Gabel, formerly with the Echelon Corporation, has joined ALYA as Director of Business Development (USA).
Gabel's mission is to use his years of very successful sales and management experience and his multiple contacts in the building automation industry to build a network of resellers across the United States.
Gabel brings to ALYA 22 years of experience in sales and management in the high tech industry. He has been with Echelon since 1991. Gabel's previous sales and management positions were with the Exabyte Corporation [Nasdaq:EXBT - news], Pixar and Data General where he accomplished the following:
Echelon Consistent revenue increases since 1991. Penetrated 15
"Fortune 500" companies as Strategic Accounts Manager;
Exabyte Corp. Responsible for $23 million in revenue as National
Distribution Sales Manager;
Pixar Increased profitability by 17%. And managed
relationships with Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics,
Digital Equipment Corporation [NYSE:DEC - news] and IBM.
Data General Sold over $25 million in Data General equipment.
"Salesman of the Year" in 1984.
With the appointment of Gable, ALYA has established an office in
Texas at:
1150 Lakeway Drive Telephone: 512/261-2077
Austin Texas 78734 Fax: 512/261-2111
USA
ALYA International, Inc. (OTC BB:ALYA - news) is a leader in software design using Microsoft's(R) Windows NT(R), Echelon's(R) LonWorks(R) technology and Local/Wide area networks communication protocols. ALYA's first product, O.P.E.N.cortex(tm) is a development platform based on these de facto standards directed to companies implementing applications for end users such as building management systems and process control applications.
ALYA has utilized this platform in the design of its second product O.P.E.N.centrix(tm), an application for Security Systems and Building Access. LonWorks technology is a de facto standard in the building automation and process control industries providing a new standard for open architecture and interoperable control systems. The LonMark(R) Association, supported by Motorola(R), Honeywell Inc [NYSE:HON - news].(R), Johnson Controls, Inc.(R), Olivetti(R), BTE(R) and Toshiba Corporation(R) endorses LonWorks. ALYA is one of the first companies to develop ''plug and play'' open architecture (ALYA's O.P.E.N.(tm) ''Open Platform for Essential Networks'') hardware and software for the security and control industries.
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